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The Academy for Assessment of Student Learning offers HLC member institutions a four-year sequence of events and interactions that are focused on student learning, targeted at accelerating and advancing efforts to assess and improve student learning, and designed to build institution-wide commitment to assessment of student learning.

Participation in the Academy:

• may serve in place of mandated progress reports, monitoring reports, and focused visits on assessment of student learning (PEAQ).
• may serve in place of one or more action projects (AQIP).
• can produce evidence for Criteria and Core Components for accreditation evaluation.

Academy Outcomes

• Further establish institutional commitment to teaching, to student learning, and to assessing, confirming, & improving student learning;
• Achieve intended results defined by student learning projects & action portfolio
• Accelerate efforts to assess, confirm, & improve student learning;
• Improve institutional capacity to assess, confirm, & improve student learning;
• Develop institutional leaders and mentors;
• Test and document effective practices in assessing, confirming and improving student learning;
• Interact with diverse institutions; building a collaborative network for ongoing comparison of efforts and results; and
• Establish and build a sustained, ongoing commitment around student learning.

For more information, please contact John Hausaman, The Higher Learning Commission. 312-263-0456 x126; jhausaman@hlcommission.org